Re: [boost] Re: ATTN: All Developers Interested in Boost.Preprocessor

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-30 21:02:48

At 08:43 PM 4/30/2003, David Abrahams wrote:

 >> To maximize the likelihood of acceptance, consider something like this:
 >>
 >> * Implement the feature in Wave, to establish actual implementation
 >>   experience. Perhaps keep a note of how much added Wave code is
 >>   required.
 >>
 >> * Let Wave users develop some experience with the feature, to find out
 >>   how useful and robust it is in practice.
 >>
 >> * Iterate the above, if the feature isn't quite right yet.
 >>
 >> * Do the same for other small PP features.
 >>
 >> * Write a unified proposal to the committee leaning heavily on the
 >>   existing practice that has been developed, with several Boosters as
 >>   co-authors.
 >
 >On the other hand, the lack of an implementation or any experience has
 >not kept the EWG from intensely discussing a proposal for adding macro
 >scoping, which IMO is a much bigger change than Vesa's proposing**.  It
 >would seem perverse to refuse to give equal attention to a proposal
 >like Vesa's which is based the real need of a really heavy user of the
 >preprocessor.

Regardless of whether PP proposals come in one-at-a-time or unified into a 
single coherent proposal, if they are backed up by real-world 
implementation and use experience they will stand a better chance of 
actually making it all the way into the standard.

--Beman